Michael Gove ‘unapologetically in a hurry’ to set up academies

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City Academy pupils in Hackney, London. Hundreds of academies will open under the new lawsRichard Pohle for The Times

Joanna Sugden

Last updated at 12:49PM, July 28 2010

The Education Secretary refused to apologise today for rushing through
legislation to create new academies as MPs criticised him for using methods
reserved for anti-terror laws to get the Bill passed.

Michael Gove told the cross-party Education Committee that he did not regret
pushing the new laws through Parliament in order to free hundreds more
schools from local authority control and allow parents and teachers to set
up their own schools.

“The haste is because I believe that we desperately need to transform our
education system,” he said.